Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.
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